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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Neat Song

Despite the fact that I'm secular, and this song endorses religion, I am a conservative in American politics and I do think this is a neat song:

Government spending DOES need to decrease. Life DOES start at conception. Homosexuality IS wrong. Government ownership of business is a disaster waiting to happen. The USA DOES need to do its own drilling for oil. etc.

But as a secular person, how can you limit marriage to one male and one female? Why can't it be "two people"? After all, in religion the purpose of marriage is procreation. In secular culture, it's... well, there really is no purpose. No wonder so many people are living common law these days.But this is the basic argument - you're drawn an arbitrary line in the sand, but based on what?

What's the difference between a long-term common law relationship and a marriage other than the wedding album? After a few years, the law mandates formal divorce in both cases with all the attendant property and child custody splitting. Many married women no longer take their husband's surname and some common law women do. So it really is the same thing. Unless you can point out a single significant difference.

Marriage, between man and woman, is special. It creates life. Homosexual marriage can never ever ever be equal to heterosexual marriage.

Quite frankly Garnel, it is destructive for you to try to say religion is necessary for morality, to advance your agenda.

The laws of mathematics exist regardless of whether or not the supernatural really exists, there is absolutely no reason why the laws of morality can't exist independently of the supernatural by way of inference.

Even in the Torah, Cain was punished for murder long before a commandment against murder was given. The Torah agrees - morality exists on its own without religion.

So let me get this straight - lesbians undergoing artificial insemination is unnatural. What about a heterosexual couple that undergoes IVF or something like that? Are they also unnatural?

Bottom line: there is no secular reason a relationship of two or three or more caring people, irrespective of gender, cannot be called a marriage. The term isn't copyrighted, except by religion. You are drawing an arbitrary red line based on your own personal feelings. Now there's nothing wrong with that, but you must recognize that it's totally arbitrary, nothing deeper than that.